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By Neto Baptiste
National junior cyclist, Tahje Browne, has described the opportunity to ride alongside seasoned professionals in Italy as a dream come through, adding that his aim is to succeed in his bid to become a professional rider.
Speaking to Observer Media from Italy where he has taken up a one-month stint with the Italia Nuova pro team, Browne said he is fully embracing the chance he has been given.
“Getting onto a professional team and getting paid to ride a bike is what I have been pushing towards and that’s why I am on the bike for so many hours. It gives me the motivation to know that if I can put in as much work as I can, try my best and get a contract, then I would know I put in my best and I belong here with the rest (of the) professionals,” he said.
Browne, who has been a dominant presence on the national cycling scene so far this season, assured he is fully prepared for the task at hand and cognisant of the areas in which he needs to improve.
“Going into Italy, I would have to say that my biggest change is how I eat, the time I go to sleep, managing my calories and my hydration and things like that; from a more on-the-bike perspective, it would be ways of drafting (technique where a cyclist rides closely behind another to reduce wind resistance and effort), how to attack and when to attack, how to put more force on the bike. I feel like some things I can do, like tracking my calories and my sleep are the things I would have to improve on to give me that extra bit of edge I need to pull through,” he said.
The 17-year-old cyclist left the country on Sunday for Italy after the opportunity was organized by a member of the Antigua and Barbuda Cycling Federation (ABCF), Tiziano Rossignoli. Browne, the son of former national netballer, Chaka Grant Browne and Jason Browne. is a member of the Wadadli Cycling Academy.
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